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Awful truly awful I fear for us this season because after Song joins all we got to look forward to is a washed up journeyman on a free or a young unproven foreign striker on loan.Why did we spend £8m on a defender who isn't even as good as Tomkins?
61dicksey wrote:Just seen a re rin pf the goals Creswell should have just put the first on row Z the secod was keystone cops Cresswell again , safety first young man.
Exactly, Bournemouth have done very little to get the 2 goals. That aside though, we really aren't playing well, too deep, Nolan and noble have touched the ball twice each
We are going to have to put emphasis on signing some full backs rather than strikers in the next week or so based on the total pile of c#@p we have just witnessed.
Signs are worrying based on the Leicester game and this one.
This is definitely Avram style. Trying to be technicians in defensive situations that don't suit it. Open in all areas.
Granted (no pun intended) the manager has been sailed down the river by the board, but this is depressing. Two games in a row now I've seen Reid look like a Championship defender.
What I don't understand is that at Arsenal when they were attacking, which was a lot, the defense looked calm, collected and dealt with everything they threw at us in their stride. Every time Leicester and more so now Bournemouth attack it's all hands to panic stations and running around without heads. WTF happened?
Hammer83 wrote:Awful truly awful I fear for us this season because after Song joins all we got to look forward to is a washed up journeyman on a free or a young unproven foreign striker on loan.Why did we spend £8m on a defender who isn't even as good as Tomkins?
Inflation... bang average Championship players going for £8 mill these days. £8m is the new £3m.
To be honest, I've never much liked the diamond. Too narrow. We should be playing 4.2.3.1, and I'm suprised we're not with it being the system Bilic played with all last season. Nolan or Noble needs to come off for Lanzini or Jarvis.
The truth is though that Bournemouth look like they want this a lot more than we do. They're first to everything. Reminds me of the Southampton game around this time last season.
Italian Hammer wrote:We are going to have to put emphasis on signing some full backs rather than strikers in the next week or so based on the total pile of c#@p we have just witnessed.
Signs are worrying based on the Leicester game and this one.
Don't be stupid, that is s complete knee jerk reaction
So we need a striker do we? What for exactly sure we play that narrow we create f*** all anyway. I don't think Bilic has a clue how to control a game especially when you're at home and have to take the initiative.
Mega Ron wrote:I haven't been able to watch the game but I bet we have no width.
The fullbacks therefore are being asked to do too much and failing to either defend or attack properly?
Somewhat.
Also, well, they aren't very good defenders. Even last season we had to choose whether to be conservative and protect their weakness or open up and take chances. Bilic wants to play open and trust the FB to defend their position, and neither Cresswell nor Jenkinson (but particularly Cresswell) look capable of defending their position without help.
Neither goal was something where a winger would have helped. Creswell simply played a level of defense that would make a League 1 LB embarrassed.
What's Aaron Cresswell playing at, and Jenkinson isn't much better, seems only Kouyate is putting in a decent shift. Randolph not at fault and a very respectable save. Dreadful stuff, real dreadful stuff.
Reckon this is another one lost in the first half.
Jumby wrote:On the back of a sh*t display for England U'21's and commiting his future to Arsenal we go and take the cheap option of having him on loan again, dogsh*t
And yet 250 pages (give or take) are devoted to objections that loaned him instead of spending 8m on him.
Maybe it's a ploy to devalue him before next summer's transfer window.